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Nonprofit Newswire | D.C. Central Kitchen vs. Rush Limbaugh
Rick Cohen August 20, 2010; Source: WUSA | The key to maximizing website visits on the Internet involves using the right keywords. We know one keyword that always works—Rush Limbaugh. Another key is good video. This story has both. Recently, ...
Nonprofit Newswire | Fieldstone Alliance Publishing Sold
Ruth McCambridge August 2, 2010; Source: Publishers Weekly | The publishing component of Fieldstone Alliance will have a new home this week—at Turner Publishers. The group was one of a few regular book publishers for nonprofit managers. Fieldstone ran into ...
Nonprofits running on empty
PJ staff report | July 19, 2010 Nonprofits and their employees are "stretched to the breaking point" by the troubled economy, and although adapting to the strain and digging deep to address rising demand for services, they need some relief ...
Social-justice funding grows
PJ staff report | July 23, 2010 Grants to support social justice grew to 14.7 percent of giving by U.S. foundations in 2008, up from a range of 11 percent to 12 percent for most of the past decade, a ...
EPA Hosts Video Town Hall on BP Oil Spill
I'm happy to announce that OSWER will be holding our fourth Video Town Hall discussion on Thursday, August 12 from 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST. The topic of the conversation will be the BP oil spill. Anyone who wishes to ...
Questions of Transparency Cloud the Social Innovation Fund
Rick Cohen, Aaron Lester, and Ruth McCambridge The Obama administration has promised the American public that it would be the most open and transparent administration in U.S. history. To date, that promise has been contradicted by the design and implementation ...
Debt Threatens Atlanta’s Biggest Homeless Shelter
August 2, 2010, 01:40 PM ET Atlanta’s largest shelter for the homeless has been foreclosed and faces eviction after running up $900,000 in debt, NPR reports. The downtown Peachtree-Pine Shelter houses up to 400 people a night in summer and ...
Nonprofits on the Hook: State Holds Payments Pending Budget Resolution
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 14:50 0diggsdigg Nonprofit service providers are continuing to be denied payment for services provided since April 1st pending a resolution of the State’s budget deadlock in Albany. Despite the passage of individual budget bills finalizing ...
MA & NH: PILOTs Under Consideration
By MONICA DAVEY Published: July 25, 2010 BEATRICE, Neb. — Give away land to make money? Enlarge This Image Kevin Moloney for The New York Times Lots in Beatrice, marked on a map. It hardly sounds like a prudent scheme. ...
Nonprofit Newswire | New Haven Eliminating Nonprofits
Rick Cohen July 26, 2010; Source: New Haven Independent | Sometimes the off-handed remarks of politicians and reporters, frequently blended together in an unattributed mash-up, tell you important things. In this article covering tax assessment mistakes of New Haven’s tax ...
Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity Survey Announced
OneStar Foundation: Texas Center for Social Impact, Texas Health and Human Services’ Task Force for Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity, and the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University invite you to complete and submit this survey. ...
Nonprofit Newswire | Who's Owed What by Deadbeat Illinois
Rick Cohen July 21, 2010; Source: Crain’s Chicago Business | If you want to see how a state’s fiscal crisis affects the nonprofit sector, just look at the list of 136 nonprofits that are owed $1,000,000 or more by the ...
Nonprofit Newswire | St. Louis' Nonprofits: 'Not A Pretty Picture"
Bruce Trachtenberg July 23, 2010; Source: St. Louis Today | Sometimes we don't have to offer our opinions or interpretations for the Newswire. Not when observers themselves use words like "worrisome" and "not a pretty picture" to describe the economic ...
Nonprofit Newswire | Three Hundred Workers Laid Off After Nonprofit Runs out of Money
Bruce Trachtenberg July 21, 2010; Source: nj.com | We're getting used to the daily deluge of bad news about nonprofits, especially reports about how many are being forced to take drastic steps to cut expenses. But this story about how ...
Five Worst Government Contracting Abuses
For decades governments have been turning to nonprofits to deliver government services, but increasingly governments fail to pay to nonprofit organizations the full cost of providing those services to individuals. Nonprofits have struggled for years to maintain quality services despite ...
Charity Watchdog Releases List of Reasons Groups Fail to Meet Standards
July 12, 2010, 04:02 PM ET By Grant Williams The BBB Wise Giving Alliance, a major charity watchdog, has released a list of its standards that national charities most commonly fail to meet when the alliance evaluates them against its ...
Iconic Organization Opts to Shorten Its Name
The YMCA is following a number of iconic organizations in shortening its formal name as a way of rebranding the organization, says The New York Times. The YMCA (short for the its original name, the Young Men's Christian Association) will ...
The Cohen Report | July 1, 2010
Rick Cohen The HUD initiative to privatize public housing has recently been withdrawn by the Obama Administration. What? You missed it? You'd be forgiven if you did—there was very little said about the topic in the blogosphere or elsewhere. How could ...
Nonprofit Newswire | California Councilman Says Cities Should Not Fund Nonprofits
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